GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING

  Demolish The Bricks Psychological blockages can significantly impede an individual's progress towards achieving their goals. These blockages can be caused by a lack of confidence, excessive worry about others' opinions, anxiety, fear of failure, procrastination, or having too many decisions to make. In order to help clients overcome these blockages, it is important to first make them aware of the specific challenges they are facing. According to Bandura's social cognitive theory, self-efficacy plays a critical role in an individual's ability to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals (Bandura, 1986). Therefore, it is essential to help clients develop a sense of self-efficacy by encouraging them to view their challenges as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than as insurmountable obstacles. One effective strategy for overcoming psychological blockages is to help clients set specific goals and develop a plan for achieving them (Latham & Locke, 2002). This in...

  Console with Your Gesture and Posture Nonverbal communication has been recognized as a vital component of human communication, and plays an important role in social interactions, including in the context of counseling. Nonverbal communication is comprised of a range of behaviors including physical proximity, use of movement, facial expression, eye contact, posture, physiological responses, kinesics, haptics, and proxemics (Andersen & Guerrero, 2018). These nonverbal behaviors convey information about an individual’s emotional state, intentions, and attitudes, and can significantly influence how others perceive and respond to them (Knapp & Hall, 2010). In the context of counseling, nonverbal communication can be a powerful tool for building rapport and trust between the therapist and the client. The therapist's nonverbal behaviors can convey credibility, intimacy, security, satisfaction, interest, and personal awareness to the client, which can facilitate a positive therap...

  Modeling In Counseling There are several approaches to modeling for counseling trainers that help to cultivate their career as a counselor. These include video demonstrations, role modeling, and creating a criteria list that contains all the necessary requirements for excellent therapy with wise and sophisticated counselors whom they can find in counselor organizations, in which they should enroll. Trainees are expected to check the criteria list in detail after completing a triad session, and qualified trainee counselors need to evaluate the results and note their missing points with their friends and ask them to criticize how they led the session. They can also mark themselves as if in the positions of teacher and student. In addition to these, creating a setting to observe people's psychology and their reactions in each situation to detect their problems and deduce some ideas from their approaches to phenomena can be counted as another way of modeling. In this case, the traine...